Tbf Dolphin calls them folders

something very similar in mainframe land where they call files "datasets." if you call a dataset a file, get ready to get an earfull!

which is ironic considering IBM themselves often call them files and one of the most popular dataset utilities is called FileAid. but if we acknowledge that, we lose a valuable opportunity to belittle and exclude newcomers

For what it's worth, they're referred to as directories by command prompt and PowerShell (effectively the new Windows command prompt) tools as Windows as well.

Call them inodes and see what happens next

I use directory and folder interchangeably

Just call it a 'container object' and you can be technically correct in almost every context.

See also: in SQL and Dataverse, a row is called a 'record', but in SharePoint and Lists, a row is called an 'item', and MAN do people get all pissy if you get them mixed up or refer to it as a 'row'.

It's even more aggravating when you understand that 1) they're all different implementations of the 'table' data structure, so the term is still accurate; 'records' and 'items' are just subsets of 'rows', and 2) SharePoint and Lists are just SQL on the backend anyway.

Like, obviously you knew what I meant, but how is your ego gonna get stroked unless you preach about pedantic details that don't matter?

That's idiotic. We all know it's a file, everything's a FILE!

Don't care, KDE says "create new folder", it's a folder.

Anyone gives me a hard time about that, I’m reverting to Amiga and calling it a “drawer”

You'll pry my old outdated terminology from my cold dead hands lol

I got binders full of .txt files.

They’re called files!

If I'm browsing in a GUI they're folders. If I'm using a CLI they're directories. Except when I decide to do the opposite in either situation. Everything I do is the correct method and the only people who are wrong are whoever disagree with me. Unless they're hot.

I call them "bags of holding" because their capacity is undefined.

ZFS head correcting you to "dataset"

Well, is there no excuse for Winslop convertees? 😊

Only the 1337 know that they're really called "stores". That's why the command ls exists: list stores.

Obviously I'm kidding. It's short for list, somehow. Just remove that unnecessary IT.

I say "directory" because I learned how to computer on MS-DOS.

When you accidentally say "deck" instead of "library" in your MTG group

File and Folder are quicker to type. So I type that.

Anyone else catch shit for saying machine or box?

"Yeah it's a Windows box so whatever is trying recon knows nothing and hasn't learned after repeated attempts."

"The Honeypot? Yeah just a Linux box that blows up our alerts channel if anyone tries to touch it."

Etc.